Friday, 10 July 2015

Sous les pavés, la plage

The
news from Greece seems the moment to quote Frantz Fanon: “What
matters today, the issue which blocks the horizon, is the need for a
redistribution of wealth. Humanity will have to address this
question, no matter how devastating the consequences may be.” The
half century since these words were written have shown us what
happens with our failure to do so. Those years have been ones of
bloody imperialism raging through Fanon's Africa and eastwards
through Mesopotamia to Indochina. The graves I saw in the Balkans was
early evidence that our
continent was not immune. My
generation of the 1960s was one of angry,
frustrated, young people who fought for a better and fairer world. I
am hoping that Left Fieldmay play a small part to inspire a new generation - that
change is possible, that,
in
the words of the Paris '68 graffiti, beneath the cobblestones, there is a beach.